Online training resources
In addition to implementing training programmes itself, ERA continues to develop standard training materials and other resources that can be reused by national training actors.
Introductory e-Courses
In 2023, ERA created four new basic e-learning courses on company law, anti-money laundering, European civil procedure and tax law, which are now available for free on the ERA website.
With co-funding from the EU, ERA also produced a new e-learning course combining language and legal training on criminal law for court staff, a new e-tool in three language versions and two new courses on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as seven new e-learning modules on combating trafficking in human beings. On environmental law, it produced a total of nine new courses in eight different language versions, which are publicly available on the websites of both ERA and DG Environment. It also produced a new Italian-language version of its course on gender equality.
In addition to the distance-learning resources available on its own website, ERA also regularly develops tailor-made e-learning solutions for the EU institutions and other clients. ERA continued to complete a service contract with the European Parliament on developing bilingual e-learning modules designed for lawyer-linguists. In 2023, two course were created. The first, entitled “Essentials of Cryptocurrency Technologies” was designed in English and Portuguese, and aimed to provide participants with an understanding of how cryptocurrency works, how transactions can be analysed and the special investigative techniques that can be applied. The other e-learning course entitled “Energy Policy and Climate Change” was created in English and Italian. The course provides an overview and introduction to the legal framework for the energy transition within the framework of the European Green Deal in the European Union and enables an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals in the main regulatory pillars of the European Green Deal, the regulation regarding climate governance in the EU, the recent developments in case law regarding EU environmental and climate law, as well as an overview of the recent developments on energy transition in Europe, including on cutting-edge energy technologies such as hydrogen.
In addition to the distance-learning resources available on its own website, ERA also regularly develops tailor-made e-learning solutions for the EU institutions and other clients. ERA continued to complete a service contract with the European Parliament on developing bilingual e-learning modules designed for lawyer-linguists. In 2023, two course were created. The first, entitled “Essentials of Cryptocurrency Technologies” was designed in English and Portuguese, and aimed to provide participants with an understanding of how cryptocurrency works, how transactions can be analysed and the special investigative techniques that can be applied. The other e-learning course entitled “Energy Policy and Climate Change” was created in English and Italian. The course provides an overview and introduction to the legal framework for the energy transition within the framework of the European Green Deal in the European Union and enables an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals in the main regulatory pillars of the European Green Deal, the regulation regarding climate governance in the EU, the recent developments in case law regarding EU environmental and climate law, as well as an overview of the recent developments on energy transition in Europe, including on cutting-edge energy technologies such as hydrogen.
Besides its cooperation with national bars, ERA frequently works with associations or networks of individual lawyers or law firms. In 2023, it organised its eleventh annual joint seminar in Brussels with the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), which was attended by 77 lawyers in private practice from 23 different countries. The event provided participants with the opportunity to discuss current topics of European labour law and an update on the most recent CJEU cases in this area.
As a continuation of its partnership with the Global Electronic Council that started in 2019, ERA organised two online training events in 2023 at their request, on sustainability and EU public procurement law. The events were aimed at providing an introduction to European public procurement law and how it can be leveraged to achieve sustainability objectives. They were attended by a total of 139 procurement professionals (representatives of contracting authorities and the private sector) from EU and non-EU countries.
In October 2023, ERA designed and implemented an intensive course on “Sustainable and Digital Finance” for the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA). The programme covered topics on financial services in general, particularly in the area of enforcement and horizontal vision in the work of the European Commission, as well as a range of topics on sustainable and digital finance. Special attention was paid to green bonds, MiCAR, DORA and the AI Act.
"Gender Diversity in Companies’ Management and on their Boards"
e-Presentations
For each e-presentation, a basic version is available for free on ERA’s YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/c/EuropeanLawERA and a premium version with added functionality, including the possibility to obtain a certificate to meet continuing professional development (CPD) obligations, is available on the ERA website for a modest fee.
ERA produced a further 115 e-presentations in the framework of EU-funded projects on environmental law, trafficking in human beings (THB), anti-discrimination law and gender equality, as well as criminal law in the post-Covid context. In addition to English, some of these e-presentations were produced in Bulgarian and Polish.